The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-09
Events That Should Indicate to Mr.. Chamber
lain and His Friends Certain Points on
Which They Have Made Mistakes.
Gladstone Will Make No Concessions to
Conciliate the Liberal UniOnists.
The Real Danger to the Peace of Europe Does
Not Exist in Bulgaria. but in the Atti-
tude of Boulanger Toward Germany.
THE IRISH QUESTION.

THE IRISH QUESTION.
No Rupture in the Nationalist Ranks-No
Concessions from Gladstone.
epecial to the Indianapolis Journal.
LONDON, JAM 3-The report that rupture
/ had occurred between Mr. Parnell and Messrs.
Dillon and O'Brien regarding the continuation
Of the "Plan of Campaign is untrue. The
pressure brought to bear by the government
fupon uncompromising landlords, though good as
FAR as it goes, has fatal fault 1t does not go
{far enough. Up to the present it has been con-
fined to disturbed districts. The government
has ignored Connaught and Ulster, the latter the
most loyal and law abiding province in Ireland,
The tenants of loyal Ulster demand that
rents should be at once adjusted to
IA sliding scale, taking into account
the fall of prices since they were
%originally fixed. They state that this is the
j only way to prevent the almost universal in
#solvency with which farmers are at present
xthreatened. The Belfast Northern Whig one
cf the ablest organs of the Unionists in Ireland,
complains bitterly of the unjust manner in
which tenants on large Ulster estates are being
Created. Dr. Kane, the famous Orange cham
pion, also denounees the government and Ulster
Landlords for refusing TO treat tenants with the
Generous consideration they deserve. Dr. kanes
Recent letter. referring to non reduction of rent
has been printed in leaflet form and scattered
Broadcast throughout the kingdom. In it the
Doctor says:
"Was that refusal honest, in the light of the
fact that the landlord and tenant are partners
and ongh. to share the burden of the present de-
pressiona And is it at all advisable to identity
The Loyalist cause with an unfeeling refusal of
d reasonable and just requestP
II DR.. Kane is quick enough to see the impolicy
Eos thus treating Loyalists, but what he and
his friends in Ireland and England slow to
learn is that whether a man is Loyalist or
the reverse has nothing to do with it. What is
unjust for tho Loyalist cannot, by any code of
morality, be considered just for their opponents.
Mr. Chamberlain and all the other Unonists
supported the Irish land act. They accepted the
principle that rents should no longer be settled
by free contract between man and man, but
ESby the state. They must now see that, in view
Of the violent oscillation in prices which has
been brought about by bad seasons and American
competition, system of fixing rents by sliding
scale, il possible, would have been juster plan
30 both partners. Mr.. Chamberlain himself ad-
vocated the compulsory total cessation of of evic
Sion in Ireland for half year, and thereby fully
Recognized the gravity of the crisis. Mr.. Par
nell, on the other hand, proposed that
evictions should be stayed upon the pay
nent of half the rent and that
The tenant should be entitled to 60 into the court
md ask what further amount of rent he should
pay. Mr.. Parnell notably open to conpro
mise upon the amount of the first necessary de-
bosit and if the government had met him half
way the amount could have probably been fixed
IT as high figure 20 per cent The govern
Rnent would hear of neither plan, therefore the
tenants were forced into defending themselves
IN their own way. The ''Plan Of Campaign
sn't ideal scheme or one shifted to ordinary
lines, but the Irish tenant was driven into a
( orner, and the question was, how could he de-
7 end his share in the common property against
landlords like Lord Clanrcarde. The times
I we're not ordinary, and he had to defend himself
s best he could. That he has striven to do Sc
without outrage is at all events, something
gained, and that Messrs Dillon and O'Brien
have steadily used their great influence to tina,
md will be remembered to their credit.
At is great mistake to assume that Mr.. Par
helis present standing, outside the quarrel oil
ne moment In Ireland implies any Cimirutior
pf, or danger to- his influence. Mr.. Parnel
knows much better than that. He is at present
ike Mr.. Gladstone, in that he has but one con
roNersy on hand. He is "a partner and co
operator with the illustrious leader of the Lib
Iral party in the great cause OF home rule fol
Ireland, and his very acute parliamentary
Z nstinct, coupled with the present state of his
Y pealth, causes him to hold himself somewhat
lloof from the fight in which Mr. Dillon
md Mr.. OBrien are the chief actors Mr. Par
n Yell has to hold himself level with his duty in
Pie House OF Commons. 1t is scarcely necessary
e point out with what great power he and Mr.
&ay TOW vuil hn ahl ia.
" vents and to show that the rnle of the present
~ oyernment is daily affording evidence of the
nexpedlency, 1T not the mpossibility of contitu
q ng English rule in Ireland upon a system which
p the light OF recent action with regard to the
Piiice of Under Secretary, the government have
endered even more political and centraliz ed
ran 1t has ever been in the present generation
r. the report that Mr.. Gladstone is about K
nake concessions TO the dissident Liberals or
bis hone-rule bill has no foundation II VOL
~ nown that both Mr. Gladstone and Mr. .Joby
~ iorley will not recede iota from the princl
Bf 70 OF the bill as introduced by Mr.. Gladstone
Va they are, however, willing to make concession,
n p the Irish land question. Politicians of al
IT, lasses admit that even at the last election Mr.
Il ladstone would have carried the country on tn
pome-rule question had he not been handicappe,
Eith his Irish land bill Since then the exer
rs IONS or the Liberal leaders in delivering AL
lresses and lectures and the distribution O
PAMPHLETS and by tho Liberal League hav
~ ducated the masses more thoroughly on I'll
n uestion OF homo rule, and there is nc doubt tina
~ mother election would return Mr.. Gladstone t
~ ower with sufficient majority to attain tn
81 ole object OF his remaining longer in rolitica
N.Y. fe-a peaceful settlement of the Irish difficulty
!. ne fact is that Lord Harrington and MI
chamberlain arc having great difficulty in nre
enting stampede Of the Liberal Unonist
ack to the Liberal fold. The activity displaye
h The various political headquarters indicate
pat the leaders expect another election early i
= ne SPRING and preparations being made az
= ordingly.
y THE PEACE OF EUROPE